Erik Naumann

GuitarFetish describes this pickup as warmer and with a fatter low-end as compared to their premier "Crunchy Rails" humbucker pickups, but the Power Rails offer plenty of detail and crispiness to create sharp, articulate, yet saturated, high-gain metal tone. These are absolutely meant for high-gain tones and are extremely high-output - so much so they can easily overload (as in, likely to feedback or squeal) an amp that isn't properly set up for a pickup of this output. However, they do allow for pickup splitting, so if you're guitar allows for that, you have an additional variety of "tamer" tones to choose from. I found the split tones work quite well for cleans in my experience. I'm also a huge fan of GuitarFetish's "Kwikplug" pickup system. Though it does tie you into using pretty much only GFS pickups for as long as you have it installed, I've been consistently impressed with all their offerings, and they have a large variety of styles in each pickup format. It's hard to find any fault in these pickups for the price. I'm running these Power Rails in both the neck and bridge of my Harley Benton Fusion II HH, and I couldn't be happier.